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Published by Jonathan Cape, 1930, Traveller's Library series,, 1930
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition book. No dust jacket. Mild shelf wear and age but a well-preserved book overall with clean and firmly bound pages.
Published by The Grolier Society, London
Seller: The Curiosity Book Shop, Hardwick, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. No date, circa 1900. Edition De Luxe, Limited to One Thousand Copies for England and America, No. 395. Lovely tinted frontis and engraved text portraits and tissue guards intact and crisp. Three-quarter leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers--once very attractive but now marred by library "repairs" and marks. Clear laminate affixed over spine; white tape to front and rear hinges, resulting in split along front endpaper; various library inkstamps and black markings over some library marks appear on front blank endpapers, "Dandies" title page, verso of rear marbled endpaper, and top page block; scars from pocket- and sticker- removal to rear endpaper. Moderate wear to cover edges, moderate-to-heavy rubbing of marbled cover boards. Interior text crisp and clean.
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1930, Traveller's Library series,, 1930
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, small 8vo, 287pp plus catalogue, owner's name on endpaper, otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth, gilt decorated spine, slight soiling on covers, Good condition / no dustwrapper.
Published by The New York Public Library, 1977
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Gray paper over boards with a red paper spine and gold lettering. No date on title page. Copyright date is 1977. 69 pages. In very good condition. The binding is square and strong. The corners are very lightly bumped. Covers a bit rubbed. Pages inside are clean and unmarked. A limited facsimile edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 322.
Published by Broadview Press, 2013., 2013
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
Soft Cover., 21.5x14cm, map, 319 pages, several illustrations, bumped corners, couple of dog ears. A new edition of a body of work originally pub.in 1763, by the author who accompanied her husband Edward Montagu to Turkey; Newly edited by two Canadian University Professors;
Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1893,, 1893
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
hardback, large 8vo, complete in 2 vols, xvii,514;xvi,523pp. teg, edges browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, pebbled red cloth gilt, Very Good condition.
Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996
ISBN 10: 0198183194ISBN 13: 9780198183198
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tightly bound in full navy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A fine, fresh copy in like dust jacket: clean, tight, and unmarked with only a small previous owner's mark on the front endpaper. xxviii, 276pp.
Published by Printed by Robert Donaldson, Greenock, Scotland, 1818
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Privately printed. Full contemporary calf. Octavo, 7 3/4" x 5. pp. vi, 159. Rubbing to extremities. Rebacked in sympathetic brown calf, four raised bands, with contrasting bergundy spine label, lettered in gilt. Bookplate "Blythswood" to front pastedown. Long manuscript inscription mentioning literary executor John Dunlop, consisting of 16 lines, to front flyleaf dated 1899, strongly emphasizing the intention for its contents to be "strictly private" for ".friends.", etc. INSCRIBED from General Sir James Steuart (son of Sir James Steuart, named in the letters) to Archibald Campbell of Blythswood, Esquire. Pages very clean. (OCLC # 503816376). According to Worldcat, the only other copy can be found in the British Library. NOTE: This volume is not to be confused with other volumes of Lady Montague's letters. There are no transaction records for this privately-issued volume on Rare Book Hub. These letters to Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart were written between May of 1758 and July of 1762. On August 21, LMWM died of breast cancer, just seven weeks after her last letter to Lady Frances Steuart was written -- on July 2nd. LMWM wrote the letters in her last surviving important correspondence: with Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart. In that final letter, LMWM wrote: "Dear Madam -- I have been ill a long time, and am now so bad, I am little capable of writing", going on to assure Lady Frances : "I am always told your affairs shall be taken care of. You may depend, dear Madam, nothing shall be wanting, on the part of your Ladyships faithful humble Servant", [signed] M.W. Montague. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), the famed English writer, poet, and traveller corresponded with Sir James and Lady Francis Steuart while travelling the continent. . The Steuarts had been exiled from their home in Scotland after their alleged involvement in the 1745 Jacobite uprising. They did not return to Scotland until 1763. Sir James Steuart, an economic theorist, (Steuart's "Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy" was the first systematic economic treatise to be published in Britain, and introduced the very term â political economy' into the English language). Steuart often sent Montague his manuscript writings for her commentary. Montagu is perhaps best remembered for her writings on the Ottoman Empire and their practice of smallpox inoculation. However, her letters to the Steuarts relate important current events in Italy and the Netherlands, as well as her views on health, gender, and education. Montague writes in her characteristically witty style throughout. In one instance, she writes "I own I am charmed with.the reproach which you men so saucily throw on our sex, as if we alone were subject to vapours.you vile usurpers do not only engross learning, power, and authority to yourselves, but will be our superiors even in constitution of mind, and fancy you are incapable of the woman's weakness of fear and tenderness" (17) This copy is one of "a few printed for strictly private" circulation. Scottish General James Steuart (1744-1839), son of Sir James and Lady Francis Steuart of Coltness, confided the task of editing his family's letters and papers to John Dunlop (1785-1842) a Scottish commentator on literature. As the address to the reader states, "Sir James Steuart had no intention, till very lately, of Printing this little volume; but it having been represented to him how much some of his particular friends would be gratified by a perusal of letters from the pen of Lady M.W. Montague.he at length consented to the letters being put into their present form, and to have only a few copies of them thrown off" (Preface to the Letters). General James Steuart presented this copy to one of those gratified friends, Archibald Campbell (1763-1838) of Blythswood House, MP for Glasgow. Its existence as a privately printed work testifies to the enduring legacy of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (ODNB and Wikipedia).